Dr. Ehab Hermena | American University of Sharjah
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College / Department

College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Psychology

Teaching areas

Developmental psychology - neuropsychology - cognitive psychology - research methods - statistics - research design - psycholinguistics - advanced cognition - neuropsychology of morality and ethics

Research areas

Cognition - langage processing - eye tracking methods - language development and difficulties - educational and academic performance

Education

PhD, Cognitive Psychology, University of Southampton, United Kingdom, 2016
PhD, Educational Psychology, University of Southampton, United Kingdom, 2012
BS, Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol, United Kingdom, 2008

Professional experience

Associate Professor Of Psychology, Psychology, American University of Sharjah, 2023 - Present
Associate Professor Of Psychology, Psychology, Zayed University, UAE, 2022 - 2023
Assistant Chair - Department Of Psychology, Psychology, Zayed University, UAE, 2019 - 2023
Assistant Professor Of Psychology, Psychology, Zayed University, UAE, 2016 - 2022

Memberships

Psychonomic Society, PS, International, The Psychonomic Society as the preeminent society for the experimental study of cognition. Since it was formed over 60 years ago, the Society has grown to over 4,300 scientists. Members are cognitive psychologists and include some of the most distinguished researchers in the field. Many are concerned with the application of psychology to health, technology, and education. PS scientists study the basic, fundamental properties of how the mind works by using behavioral techniques to better understand mental functioning. PS champions and showcases ...
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Dr. Ehab Hermena

Associate Professor
PhD, University of Southampton, United Kingdom

I am a cognitive psychologist (PhD 2016), and UK-licensed educational psychologist (PhD 2012). My interests in human cognition and learning motivated my programs of study, investigation, and teaching. My current research explores language processing, especially in Arabic, in novel ways that include eye-tracking, as means of learning more about the universals of human language processing.

Publications

Ohoud Mohamad, Haleama Al Sabbah, Linda Smail, Ehab Hermena And Rola Al Ghali. Food Consumption Frequency, Perceived Stress, and Depressive Symptoms Among Female University Students in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Frontiers In Sustainable Food Systems, 18 March 2022
Mona Moussa, Brad Elphinstone, Justin Thomas, Ehab Hermena, Mariapaola Barbato, Richard Whitehead And Glen Bates. Nonattachment as a Mediator of the Mindfulness-Well-being Relationship: Comparing Emirati and Australian Students, Mindfulness, 1 February 2022
Ehab Hermena, Sana Bouamama, Simon Liversedge And Denis Drieghe. Does diacritics-based lexical disambiguation modulate word frequency, length, and predictability effects? An eye-movements investigation of processing Arabic diacritics, Plos One, 1 November 2021
Ehab Hermena, Eida Juma And Maryam Aljassmi. Parafoveal processing of orthographic, morphological, and semantic information during reading Arabic: A boundary paradigm investigation, Plos One, 1 August 2021
Maryam Aljassmi, Ehab Hermena And Kevin Paterson. Eye movements in Arabic reading - A Review of the current literature, 26 July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2021
Joana Stocker, Maher Abu-hilal, Ehab Hermena, Maryam Aljassmi And Mariapaola Barbato. Internal/external frame of reference model and dimensional comparison theory: a novel exploration of their applicability among Arab high school students, Educational Psychology, 1 January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2021
Ehab Hermena. Manipulating Interword and Interletter Spacing in Cursive Script: An Eye Movements Investigation of Reading Persian, Journal Of Eye Movement Research, 1 January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2021
Ehab Hermena And Erik Reichle. Insights from the study of Arabic reading, Language And Linguistics Compass, 1 October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2020
Ehab Hermena, Simon Liversedge, Sana Bouamama And Denis Drieghe. Orthographic and root frequency effects in Arabic: Evidence from eye movements and lexical decision, Journal Of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory And Cognition, 1 May 2019
Ehab Hermena And Felicity Bishop. Neglect: An Interpretative Phenomenological Investigation of Senior Care Professionals’ Experiences Working with Neglected Adolescents
Timothy Jordan, Alya Al Shamsi, Hajar Yekani, Maryam Al Jassmi, Nada Al Dosari, Ehab Hermena And Mercedes Sheen. What's in a typeface? Evidence of the existence of print personalities in Arabic, Frontiers In Psychology, 18 October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2017
Ehab Hermena, Simon Liversedge And Denis Drieghe. The influence of a word's number of letters, spatial extent, and initial bigram characteristics on eye movement control during reading: Evidence from Arabic, Journal Of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory And Cognition, 1 March 2017
Ehab Hermena, Mercedes Sheen, Maryam Aljassmi, Khulood Alfalasi, Maha Almatroushi And Timothy Jordan. Reading rate and comprehension for text presented on tablet and paper: Evidence from Arabic, Frontiers In Psychology, 21 February 2017
Ehab Hermena, Simon Liversedge And Denis Drieghe. Parafoveal processing of Arabic diacritical marks, Journal Of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception And Performance, 1 December 2016
Glynis Laws, Josie Briscoe, Su Ang, Heather Brown, Ehab Hermena And Anna Kapikian. Receptive vocabulary and semantic knowledge in children with SLI and children with Down syndrome, Child Neuropsychology, 4 July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2015
Ehab Hermena, Denis Drieghe, Sam Hellmuth And Simon Liversedge. Processing of Arabic diacritical marks: Phonological-syntactic disambiguation of homographic verbs and visual crowding effects, Journal Of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception And Performance, 1 April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2015
Ed Sayer, Alexandra Beaven, Phil Stringer And Ehab Hermena. Investigating sense of community in primary schools, 1 March 2013

Grants and sponsorships

Grant, Seed Grant, AUS, January 2024 - December 2024
Grant, FRG: Investigating the role of Arabic diacritics in letter identification, and in accessing syntactic and semantic word representations

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